After years of facilitating Work That Reconnects (WTR) experiences for parents from around the world in mostly online programs, I’m excited to be hitting the road to facilitate in-person WTR experiences for parents in several communities around the western part of Turtle Island (CO, CA, OR and MT in the United States).
Parenting for the Great Turning is a deeply interactive group experience designed to strengthen and transform our relationships to ourselves, our children and the world in which we are raising them.
During our time together we’ll move through the spiral of the Work That Reconnects using content and original practices from my book Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis: a Compassionate Guidebook for New Paradigm Parenting. This powerful group work strengthens parental resilience, activates our commitment to working towards collective wellbeing and helps us cultivate a sense of community around our experience of parenting. Together we’ll conjure the clarity, courage and solidarity necessary to tune into what our kids really need and figure out how to provide that to them despite the challenges that our current times present.
If I’m coming to your part of our precious world, I hope you’ll join us!
** Please note: With the exception of the Williams, OR event, these workshops are for parents only. This is a space for adults to do the adult work of reckoning with our feelings about parenting in these times and caring for ourselves and each other to strengthen our resilience as parents. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to arrange for children’s programs at most of these locations. The one exception is in Williams, OR, where the children will be guided in parallel activities throughout our time by the wonderful and glorious Stephanie Meehan. **
Workshop Dates and Locations
Salida, Colorado
Saturday, January 18 @ 10-3pm MST – The Velveteen, Salida, CO
Crestone, Colorado
Friday, January 24 @ 10am-3:30pm MST – Crestone, CO
Grass Valley, California
Co-facilitated by Jo delAmor and Frieda Nixdorf
Saturday, February 1 @ 1pm-5pm PST – Unity in the Gold Country Spiritual Center, Grass Valley, CA
Sacramento, California
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 @ 6pm-9pm PST
email jodelamor@gmail.com for location details
Ashland, Oregon
Saturday, February 8 @ 1-5pm PST – Hidden Springs Wellness Center, Ashland, OR
Williams, Oregon
Adult program facilitated by Jo delAmor, with a parallel children’s program facilitated by Stephanie Meehan
Sunday, February 9 @ 1-5pm PST – White Oak Farm & Education Center, Williams, OR
Portland, Oregon
Saturday, February 15 @ 1-5pm PST – SE Portland
Register Here for Portland location details
Cost and Contribution
These workshops are being offered on a sliding scale basis that allows for maximum accessibility while covering costs and compensating the facilitator(s). The sliding scale range is specific for each location. Open the registration form for the workshop you’re interested in for details. If you are not able to make a contribution within the sliding scale range, please reach out to me by email at jodelamor@gmail.com to let me know what you can contribute so we can make arrangements for you to participate.
About Jo delAmor
Jo delAmor is a mom and a step-mom to two young adults (22 and 23 years old) who graduated high school in 2020, right in the midst of Covid lockdowns and school closures. She has also cared for and worked with hundreds of other people’s children of all ages in a wide variety of situations from longterm co-parenting community to public schools, from wilderness camps and preschools to in-home nannying over the last 25+ years.
Jo has been facilitating the Work That Reconnects since 2013 with a focus on dismantling oppression, transforming our cultural paradigm and supporting parents through these unprecedented and challenging times.
In her dedication to personal and cultural transformation as a catalyst for planetary healing, she has paid close attention to what this new generation needs at this pivotal time on planet Earth; charting what works, what doesn’t and what is being called forth from us as parents. She has woven the insights and practical tools she’s gathered through all of this experience into her practice of New Paradigm Parenting and her forthcoming book Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis: A Compassionate Guidebook for New Paradigm Parenting
About the Co-facilitators
Frieda Nixdorf is committed to liberation for all. She facilitates transformative experiences for participants to remember our belonging, interdependence, and kinship with the more-than-human world. Amongst many other things, Frieda has studied art, religion, psychology, deep ecology, yoga and the intricacies of the beautiful and broken world we inhabit. She has taught Eastern and Western Psychology at several community colleges, and soul purpose and professional development at the graduate level. Frieda offers Work That Reconnects and Soul Purpose workshops and serves on the leadership team for the Work That Reconnects Network.
Frieda is a climate survivor who currently resides on the unceded ancestral homelands of the Nisenan People, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Northern California. Frieda lives with her small family of three humans, two dogs, three chickens and more plant and animal beings than she can count. Learn more about Frieda here: https://lifeintheconfluence.com/
Stephanie Meehan is the mother of two currently living in the unceded lands of the Takubedeh people in what is now known as the Applegate valley of Southern Oregon. As the oldest of six children, she began tending to littles very early on, and has continued to do so for most of her life as a childcare provider, running educational garden programs and working in various alternative schools across cultures in the United States, France and Chile.
Stephanie is trained in Coyote Mentoring, facilitating the Work that Reconnects and teaching Permaculture. She loves drawing from the three together to create spaces that help us humans – big and small – reconnect to ourselves, one another and the natural world. Stephanie is also trilingual and enjoys using language as a means of connection and inclusion.
Currently, Stephanie teaches at Earthwise Forest school where she weaves her passion for nature connection, love of handcrafts and art, dedication to the development of emotional intelligence and collaborative skills, and facilitating the discovery of each child’s unique gifts. She also lives and works at White Oak Farm, where she helps to support a children’s education program, a native plant nursery and the production of healthy organic produce for school cafeterias and food banks.
